Rising From the Ashes: The Struggle to Build the Second Temple

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And uh yes, here we are. So good morning. Then let's start with this week's para. It is a double. It called mat and mas. Mat means tribes. Mase means travels. And there are um and it's the last two portions of the book of Bidbar, the fourth book of the Torah. Um, so at the end of this week, we will be four fifths of the way through. We are getting there towards through. We are getting there towards Torah when we will finish the Torah. It's about I'm not sure what it is about 3 months away. So we're we're getting the we're up there getting close. Um, very just very briefly, what are the paras about? They're very long. They're long. The two paras together is super long. Um first the para m speaks about the laws of vows the prohibition of um the mitzvah to keep everything that you say. If you say you're going to do something you must keep your word. We've done classes before about vows. That's done classes before about vows. That's why Jews are very careful whenever we make a commitment. We say I'm going to do something. Even something very simple like I'll meet you tomorrow. We always say bal nether without a vow because we don't want to be bound by it. It's a severe prohibition to not keep any vows. um there is a way to enull a vow if it's not possible to keep um that's not mentioned in the Torah but mentioned but in our oral tradition. Then Hashem tells Moshe that they should attack the nation of Midian which was um which had been

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1. 0:15And uh yes, here we are. So good morning. Then let's start with this week's para.…
2. 6:21refuge, just going through some of the rules of the city of refuge, which meant that…
3. 12:29period. Now the building of the second temple is a very unique achievement because it marks…
4. 18:38over there he says that the Babylonians would capture Jerusalem and destroy it. But he says…
5. 24:54so everyone everyone is now exiled. And so now Israel is Jews are living mostly in…
6. 31:12So who so Zerubbabel at the time is the grandson of Yho Yahim. Yho Yahim if…
7. 37:18for the meanwhile, they build an altar in the same spot, excuse me, where the original…
8. 43:24than normative Judaism. And there's a big debate that goes on for a very very long…
9. 49:34listen to the prophet Hagai and they begin rebuilding the temple in in 423 BCE sorry…
10. 55:43there probably were more Jews that came over the years and probably some Jews left, but…

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